as the title said I'm tired at the lack of bass my car has. I had a ported box with 1 12" type r and a audiobahn amp pushin 800RMS @ 4ohm. I know now that I will deff be going back to sealed for the fact of sound quality is by far much better. I am lookin into getting another SWR-1242D and a viper D1200.1 and running it at 1 ohm for a total or 1200 watt rms. I think that I will be much more satisfied. a friend of mine put this amp on his 2 swr-1241D subs @ 1 ohm and it pounds and is very clean.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
what type of ported box do yo uhave it in? i have a 8 cubic ft ported box for 2 12's and it sound's better then any sealed box.
what is your box tuned to?
I'm gonna guess a pre-fab.
A properly built ported box will sound as good and get louder than a sealed box.
I have a Polk MOMO 15" sub inside an MTX Sledgehammer enclosure, and I'm feeding it about 500W RMS. It's ported, and I can honestly say it sounds better than any sealed enclosure I've ever had. It's tight, which is something I never expected ,and there's no distortion or muddiness. For a 15" sub to sound clean is one thing, to do it in a ported box AND play loud is something else entirely, and I love it.
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I just think that the sealed gives a better and cleaner sounding bass. and alot better punch.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
It can, it really depends on the enclosure I think. The enclosure I have is designed so that the slot port runs the entire width and depth of the enclosure, but inside the chamber there's a smaller tube port. It's almost like having a sealed enclosure in the sense it has a lot of punch and still have the extra volume of a ported box. And if it's punch you need, mine was enough to break the windshield.
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I have a box it's a 18x18x14 with a port thats 16.5" tall 1.75" wide and 22.75" long. and I just dont care for it. I think that I prefer a sealed box much more.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
The01Cav wrote:I have a box it's a 18x18x14 with a port thats 16.5" tall 1.75" wide and 22.75" long. and I just dont care for it. I think that I prefer a sealed box much more.
your box is probably tuned too high. tune it to the low 30's and it'll sound a lot better sq wise.
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After a quick glace....it seems like that box is around 1.5-1.6net volume (2.0 with port) and tuned somewhere in the high 30's-low 40's.
1) i think that box is too small
2) It should be tuned way lower. 28-33 is usually a pretty good area for SQ-SQL.
I was doing some research and came across a place to throw in the parameters for the sub to get the design of a box and I came up with this. My box is tuned to 29.35Hz and is 1.54Ft3 does this sound like a good box to you? should this be good for sound quality?
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Yes. Maybe a tad larger though...maybe around 1.75 net.
With a subsonic filter ported PWNS sealed.... without, the unloading at lower frequencies than port tuning kills sound quality due to increase in transient delay and it just sounds sloppy.
